ORBIS articles from January 1996

ORBIS archives from January 1996

"False hopes" in foreign policy.(Poor Richard's Almanack)(Column)
January 1, 1996... In the winter of 1742, this happy rhyme occurred to me: A Courtier must be supple, full of Guile, Must learn to praise, to flatter, to revile The Good, the Bad; an Enemy, a Friend; To give false Hopes, and on false Hopes depend.(1) Though...

The year of the weary electorate.(Politics and Foreign Policy in 1996)
January 1, 1996... U.S. foreign policy has been fading as an issue in American presidential politics. This trend is unlikely to reverse itself in 1996. Polls indicate that voters view crime as the number one concern followed by a host of economic and social...

The impact of the new populism.(Politics and Foreign Policy in 1996)
January 1, 1996... A part perhaps from reinforcing the widespread impression of President Bill Clinton's ineptitude, foreign policy issues played only a marginal role in determining the outcome of last November's midterm elections. Yet the political realignment...

How local issues drive foreign policy.(Politics and Foreign Policy in 1996)
January 1, 1996... Political consultants should kick off their primers for presidential candidates in 1996 with the motto: "It's foreign policy, smarty." Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, American voters not only care about foreign policy, they often generate...

The paradox of presidential campaigns.(Politics and Foreign Policy in 1996)
January 1, 1996... Foreign policy issues were a distinctly minor concern in the 1992 presidential election campaign. Some pundits, ever eager to extrapolate the latest trend, have spied in this the defining American political reality of the post-cold war era....

Why we must act at once.(Missile Defense Redivivus)
January 1, 1996... An emergency meeting between the president and his top national security advisors has been called to discuss a large military buildup that our satellites have detected along the Iraq-Kuwait border. The year is 2002, just over a decade after the...

Arms control is not enough.(Missile Defense Redivivus)
January 1, 1996... A principal U.S. security concern during the last few years has been the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and their means of delivery, especially ballistic missiles. Reacting to that concern, the Clinton administration has...

To build an affordable shield.(Missile Defense Redivivus)
January 1, 1996... Since the missile age began in the latter days of World War II, scientists and engineers have been trying to develop effective anti-missile systems. By 1945, the British had already deployed air defenses against the V-1 missile - an unpiloted...

Allied support for theater missile defense.(Missile Defense Redivivus)
January 1, 1996... In December 1993, then secretary of defense Les Aspin launched the Counterproliferation Initiative (CPI). As Aspin envisioned it, the CPI would complement traditional nonproliferation efforts in three ways: 1) by promoting consensus on the...

Decapitalizing Russian capitalism.
January 1, 1996... As a reform-minded economist in 1990, Grigory Yavlinskii was one of the principal authors of Transition to the Market, a work perhaps better own as "The Five Hundred Days Plan." He is now a politician, a member of the Russian Parliament, leader...

United States Policy and the Future of the United Nations.
January 1, 1996... When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the West assumed that the cold war was over, and that Russia and the other successor states of the Soviet Union would soon cooperate wholeheartedly in a diplomacy of peace and stability based on fidelity...

Enforcing Restraint: Collective Intervention in Internal Conflicts.
January 1, 1996... When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the West assumed that the cold war was over, and that Russia and the other successor states of the Soviet Union would soon cooperate wholeheartedly in a diplomacy of peace and stability based on fidelity...

War, Aggression and Self-Defence, 2d ed.
January 1, 1996... When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the West assumed that the cold war was over, and that Russia and the other successor states of the Soviet Union would soon cooperate wholeheartedly in a diplomacy of peace and stability based on fidelity...

The Kirkpatrick Mission: Diplomacy Without Apology: America at the United Nations, 1981-1985.
January 1, 1996... When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the West assumed that the cold war was over, and that Russia and the other successor states of the Soviet Union would soon cooperate wholeheartedly in a diplomacy of peace and stability based on fidelity...

Problems and Process: International Law and How We Use It.
January 1, 1996... When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the West assumed that the cold war was over, and that Russia and the other successor states of the Soviet Union would soon cooperate wholeheartedly in a diplomacy of peace and stability based on fidelity...

The Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World.
January 1, 1996... When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the West assumed that the cold war was over, and that Russia and the other successor states of the Soviet Union would soon cooperate wholeheartedly in a diplomacy of peace and stability based on fidelity...

Utopia Lost.
January 1, 1996... When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the West assumed that the cold war was over, and that Russia and the other successor states of the Soviet Union would soon cooperate wholeheartedly in a diplomacy of peace and stability based on fidelity...

The Transformation of European Politics: 1763-1848.
January 1, 1996... The study of international politics has a moral dimension. Its goal is not simply "scientific": it is concerned not just with understanding how the international system works. A more fundamental goal is prescriptive in nature. How, in general...

The Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War.
January 1, 1996... Scholars, analysts, and politicians care deeply about how and why the cold war ended - not because of its innate historical interest, but because of its profound implications for current American policy. Did the Soviet empire collapse in part...

Victory: The Reagan Administration's Secret Strategy that Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union.
January 1, 1996... Scholars, analysts, and politicians care deeply about how and why the cold war ended - not because of its innate historical interest, but because of its profound implications for current American policy. Did the Soviet empire collapse in part...

We All Lost the Cold War.
January 1, 1996... Scholars, analysts, and politicians care deeply about how and why the cold war ended - not because of its innate historical interest, but because of its profound implications for current American policy. Did the Soviet empire collapse in part...

National Security Directives of the Reagan and Bush Administrations: The Declassified History of U.S. Political and Military Policy, 1981-1991.
January 1, 1996... Scholars, analysts, and politicians care deeply about how and why the cold war ended - not because of its innate historical interest, but because of its profound implications for current American policy. Did the Soviet empire collapse in part...

La longue duree. (on the development of anti-missile defense capability)
January 1, 1996... James E. Dougherty, a founding father of FPRI and Orbis, was apparently the first author to defend ballistic missile defense in these pages. Writing in only the fifth volume of Orbis (Winter 1962), Dougherty turned to the topic in the course of...